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What's one thing Franklin Middle gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,150
Middle
DISTRICT 818 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240012000389
Franklin Middle
10 Cockeysmill Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136 · (410) 887-1114 · Baltimore County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,150 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Maryland public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
660 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 373 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 387 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 390 | 34% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
30.2%
MD avg 50.6% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
13.2%
MD avg 34.8% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.2% | 13.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.5% | 13.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Franklin Middle
Franklin Middle's state test result (22.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Middle this school | 1,150 | 57.4% | 22.4% |
| Old Mill Middle South Millersville | 1,173 | 57.5% | 37.5% |
| Pikesville Middle Baltimore | 943 | 57.6% | 21.9% |
| Bennett Middle Fruitland | 963 | 59.3% | 28.6% |
| MacArthur Middle Fort Meade | 992 | 54.2% | 26.2% |
| Lindale Middle Linthicum | 884 | 56.9% | 28.7% |
Matched among Maryland middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Franklin Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Baltimore County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #188 of 223 | #18 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.2% | #177 of 223 ▼ 15 | #19 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #196 of 223 ▼ 12 | #19 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,150 | #18 of 230 | #3 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #176 of 225 | #17 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #70 of 225 | #9 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.4% | #87 of 227 | #15 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #52 of 123 | #12 of 20 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,150
-108 (-9%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 928
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,150 | 71.3 | 16.1:1 | 57% (660) |
| 2023-24 | 1,165 | 76.7 | 15.2:1 | 55% (640) |
| 2022-23 | 1,153 | 66 | 17.5:1 | 62% (717) |
| 2020-21 | 1,258 | 80 | 15.7:1 | 53% (673) |
| 2017-18 | 1,298 | 78.1 | 16.6:1 | 48% (626) |
| 2015-16 | 1,301 | 82 | 15.9:1 | 41% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 1,282 | 84 | 15.3:1 | 34% (434) |
| 2000-01 | 1,404 | 89 | 15.8:1 | 16% (224) |
| 1990-91 | 928 | 60 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (1,298 to 1,150); teachers down 9% (78.1 to 71.3).
About Franklin Middle
Franklin Middle is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Reisterstown, Maryland, under Baltimore County Public Schools. The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,150 students. That puts enrollment 51% bigger than the 764-student average for middle schools in Maryland.
Franklin Middle is one of 177 schools in Baltimore County Public Schools, which enrolls 110,872 students in total.
Of every 100 students at Franklin Middle, about 45 are Black, the largest group. After that, the student body is 28% Hispanic, 16% White, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Baltimore County is about 31% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 71.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, Franklin Middle has a ratio of 16.1:1. Across middle schools in Maryland, the average ratio is 14.3:1. Income data for the school show 57% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Franklin Middle holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 5% of Maryland public middle schools.
Franklin Middle posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 22.4%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Maryland are predicted to post 40.3%, so the school is 17.9 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Census data for Baltimore County show the median household earns about $91,768 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Franklin Middle, Baltimore County has 180 public schools.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Franklin Elementary, is the closest to Franklin Middle. Franklin Middle has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 39.2% proficiency; Franklin Middle posts 22.4%.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, Franklin Middle enrolled 1,258 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 1,150.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Baltimore County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
850,796
Census ACS
Median income
$91,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
110,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Baltimore County Public Schools
- Dundalk HighHigh · 2,087 students
- Perry Hall HighHigh · 2,012 students
- Woodlawn HighHigh · 1,922 students
- Kenwood HighHigh · 1,900 students
- Dulaney HighHigh · 1,889 students
- Parkville HighHigh · 1,877 students
Other schools in Reisterstown
- Franklin HighHigh · 1,481 students
- Reisterstown ElementaryElementary · 518 students
- Cedarmere ElementaryElementary · 502 students
- Glyndon ElementaryElementary · 476 students
- Franklin ElementaryElementary · 392 students
- Chatsworth SchoolElementary · 301 students
Other Franklin Middle schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Franklin Middle. Franklin Middle is the largest of the 16.
- Franklin Middle SchoolYakima, WA · 848 students
- Franklin MiddleChantilly, VA · 798 students
- FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOLPOCATELLO, ID · 718 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolChampaign, IL · 665 students
- Franklin MiddleGreen Bay, WI · 560 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Elementary0.2 mi · 392
- Chatsworth School0.2 mi · 301
- Reisterstown Elementary1.0 mi · 518
- Glyndon Elementary1.1 mi · 476
- Franklin High1.4 mi · 1,481
- Cedarmere Elementary2.1 mi · 502
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin MiddleHow large is Franklin Middle?
Franklin Middle enrolls approximately 1,150 students in grades 06-08.
Is Franklin Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Franklin Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Franklin Middle have?
Franklin Middle employs 71 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Middle?
Student demographics at Franklin Middle are roughly 16% White, 28% Hispanic, 45% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Franklin Middle public or private?
Franklin Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.